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Richard Wright

Breakthrough

Release date: 26th February 1996

From Broken China
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About This Track

"Breakthrough" is a track by Richard Wright, from the album Broken China, released 26th February 1996. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Richard Wright

Richard Wright

Lyrics

Breakthrough

[Verse 1]

I can take or leave it, won't be the woebegone

Don't need a model universe to hang your pictures on

You hide somewhere, you die somewhere

And then this senseless thought

By hating more, you're feeling more

And that's how you get caught

[Chorus]

They're never gonna make it easy

Of this you can be sure

I greet you from your wilderness

I'll stay inside your door

[Verse 2]

There is no cage or prison

They have no fence too tall

You die more times than anyone

There's still no place to fall

[Chorus]

They're never gonna keep it simple

This comes down from above

I have no helm, no secret realm

I dream to be at the heart of love, a part of love

[Verse 3]

I bet you can conceal it, but that's just a dead-end track

I'll cover you like the driven snow, then I'll bring you back

You'll see, you feel like, you feel like a banner

Unfurled and gently blown

And there before your opening eyes

The self you've never known

[Chorus]

They're never going to make it easy

Of this you can be sure

You feel untied, beatified

And loved forevermore

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From Broken China

1996
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Broken China
Broken China
Richard Wright
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1996
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